Randomized clinical trials remain the gold standard for establishing a medication's effects, producing the evidence by which ...

Development economics and institutions have a new gold standard: the randomized control trial (RCT). An RCT is an evaluation technique that draws from experimental design in order to measure the ...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed in public statements that most vaccines recommended for children in the US have not been tested against placebos, ...

Introduction Virtual reality-based telerehabilitation (VR-TR) combines gamified exercises with remote supervision for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Its effectiveness and safety in PD remain ...

This scoping review identifies the first wave of randomized controlled trials testing large language models in digestive diseases. Four published and ten ongoing trials suggest that AI tools such as ...

Introduction Each year, millions of people experience recurrent diverticulitis episodes. Elective sigmoid colon resection reduces the risk of recurrence, but The American Society of Colon and Rectal ...